St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-09
A Young Man Who Went to the Soda
Fountain for Nerve to Make
His Speech.
Five Years Between the Acts Does Not
Suit a Cowboy Who Took in
''May Blossom"
A Technical Term in Base Ball Shocks
an Aged Resident Of Summit
Avenue Residence.
How Pat Kavanash Used to Make Real
Estate Deals---0ld- Time Whisky
Drinking.

soda fountains was not closed between
the hours of and T:30 o'clock p. H., as
per agreement few weeks ago. 1t was
an exceedingly lively day among the
soda fountains, and there was hardly
one i'll the city in good working order
that wasn't carraled all the afternoon
by large number of gentle swain and
his best girl.
The boys who turned the Silver-plated
valves that let the sizzling soda down
into the glasses wore a tired expression.
but the thirsty public was merciless and
kept them whO0ping.
The fayorite drink was not plain soda,
nor soda and cream. but MOXie and
soda, braced up with q little sarsaper-
lila flavor. That is what the people are
drinking this season, because it is pleas
ant to the taste and a nerve tonic.
n young fellow with a bright red
neclItie and face to match, walked into
the drug store on the corner of Seventh
and Wabasha streets with blushing
little maid of about sixteen summers
hanging on his left coat sleeve. Calling
the boy who run the fountain aside, he
said in low voice:
If you've got anything to brace fell
ler's nerve up, fix me a big dose. Eve
got to make a speech this afternoon and
I'm little bit Hurried"
The soda fountain engineer mixed
him Sledge hammer dose of Make and
the girl took soda and cream. They
went out and disappeared in the direc-
ton of Rice park. About two hours
after the couple came back to the store
and the. young fellow called the fountain
man aside again.
Say" said he, ''that stuff you gave
me was just what | wanted | made
that speech without hitch and L made
a big HIT
'.What was the subject?" asked the
soda fountain man.
"Matrimony," replied the fellow. 81
asked that girl there if she'd have me
and she said yes. DO you know, I'd
been trying to get the nerve to ask her
that for the last three months and
couldn't. That stuff you gave me is
great leather, and L want you to give
me another dose, for I've got to ask her
tonight II she can keep house on S25 a
month, and / guess you'd better give
her some OF it too, to give her the nerve
to say yes"
They drank their draughts and went
out, and probably by this time are sorry
for what they did.
A man with a very brown face, an
outrageous growth of whiSkers and a
broad-brimmed sombrero with a leather
band in his hand. walked down the aisle
at the Grand Saturday night and took a
seat in the parQuet. He was evidently
fresh from the cattle ranges of Mon
taIla, and he watched the joys and sor-
rows of May Blossom" with broadly
manifested interest until the curtain
dropped at the close of the second act,
when he looked at the programme, his
face grew red, his eyes sparkled, and.
grabbing his hat. he strobe up the aisle.
and, stepping up to the window in the
ticket office, said to Manager Scott: r.
Say, what kind of er show do you
run, anyhow?'
What's the matter with you?" asked
Scott.
Il want half ov my dollar back that /
paid ter see this air bizniz."
What for?"
"What for? Read that" and he held
the programme up to the managers face
and pointed to the lines that ran as fol-
lows: ''SiX years elapSe between the
third and fourth acts" "Whut d yer
take me fur?" said the cowboy, after
Scott had read the lines. sd yer Spose
I'm gOIn ter hang round here fur six
years ter see whether that air girl gifts
er divorce from her husband or not?''
1t took about ten minutes for Manager
Otpll W NApldlil lllc lIltdulllS Ol Tile
words to the man, who finally went back
to his seat just in time to witness the
burial of the bird.
A good old lady who lives on st. An
thony hill and is all active member of
an uptown church, picked up the paper
yesterday morning. After reading it a
few minutes, laid it down, and looking
over the top of her spectacles at her
husband said:
Husband, I'm going to pray that
base ball be wiped out of existence, and
In going to keep on praying till it's
wiped out"
What for, mother?" asked the ven
cradle husband.
What for? Why. it's perfectly awful
how they kill each other in that game.
| was Just reading about the college
boys playing out here yesterday and the
paper says Billy KnudSon died on third
base, and it's common occurrence"
~
1t was long time ago that the man
said ''all whisky is good, but some is
better than other" That man never
wrestled with longing desire to kill
the bartender after swallowing dose
OF the adulterated fusel oil that is sold
for whisky over the counters of some of
the cheap grog shops. That was the
time when everybody drank all he
wanted OF the pure corn juice, and
it-they never got oreide. Why Mayor
Smith can remember when the pure
stuff was only II cents a gallon. His
father used to keep general store in
an Indiana town, and in side room they
always had a barrel of whisky on tan,
with a glass, where everybody
went and helped themselves much
as they would from town
pump. Mayor Smiths father didn't
make any charge, but kept the whisky
on hand always for the benefit of his
customers. who were generally prettyS
dry after driving in from the neighbour
ing farms. Mayor Smith was reared to
know what good whisky is, and he has
never forgotten.
Among all the ruStlerS which the real
estate field in st. Paul has developed,
there are very few who have sold and
bought more property with convincing
arguments than pat Kayanagh?
When the park commission was organ
lied Mr.. Kavanagh conceived the idea
OF selling them some of his suburban.
property at Lake Phalen for a.
park site. Accordingly, when DIR!
ochehman, the secretary of the commis-i
sion, passed his Office the next day!f
Mr.. kavanagh called him in and begun
to convince the doctor that his property
at Lake Phaten was just intended by
nature for park, and if the commission
didn't buy it they were not fulfilling
their duty to the people. DR.. Schetfman
was about convinced, when it occurred
to him to ask the price.
''Oh, could let you have it for $780,
600. guess" said Mr.. Kavanagh.
But we've only got $2U0,000 in the
fund. respo ndedthe secretary.
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